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information content of a binding site: a standalone construct

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Bioinformatics

the reduction in uncertainty, in bits, that aligned binding sites show relative to background composition.

In bioinformatics, information content of a binding site refers to the reduction in uncertainty, in bits, that aligned binding sites show relative to background composition. This meaning comes from Schneider (1986) in Journal of Molecular Biology.[1]

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References

Schneider, T. D., Stormo, G. D., Gold, L., & Ehrenfeucht, A. (1986). Information content of binding sites on nucleotide sequences. Journal of Molecular Biology, 188(3), 415-431. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-2836(86)90165-8

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